I run a relay 24/7, but sometimes also want to use Tor myself as a
client. Until now, I've been using the Tor Button in my normal Firefox
browser to switch in and out of Tor mode as needed, but now I see that
going forward, the standalone Tor Browser Bundle is the only recommended
way of using Tor as a client. How can I run the TBB on my system
without interfering with my relay? When I just tried it now, the TBB
brought up a second Vidalia instance which then tried to command my
relay's existing Tor instance instead of spawning a second one for
itself. This caused it to prompt for the relay's command interface
password, but I cancelled out since I suspect that allowing the TBB to
interfere with my relay's Tor process would lead to Bad Things, e.g.
reconfiguring its options on the fly to a client-mode config and
dropping all my users.
So... how do relay operators use Tor themselves, if they can't run TBB?
Or is there a way to configure them to live safely together? Or have I
misinterpreted the new TBB focus, and the relay bundles will continue to
support use as a client in the future as they do now? I'm using
Windows 7 if that matters, but I doubt it.